In this episode of 51-49, James breaks down Trump’s new executive order opening 401ks to private equity — exposing how a $3.6 trillion bubble of failing companies could be dumped into your retirement, why even Harvard and Yale are scrambling to get out, and how Wall Street plans to use ordinary Americans as exit liquidity in a disguised bailout.
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VA: The Illusion of Choice
Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.
The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites: Here’s What They Were Hiding
The CIA didn’t just infiltrate governments; it infiltrated the internet itself. For over a decade, Langley operated a sprawling network of covert websites that served as global spy terminals disguised as harmless blogs, news hubs, and fan pages.
The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites: Here’s What They Were Hiding
Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website
LARGE SECTIONS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WERE REMOVED FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S OFFICIAL PAGE
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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website (archived)
These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have, as well as limitations on the powers of individual states. The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention.
Some of the sections’ text appears missing, as indicated by a trailing semicolon at the end of Section 8, where text used to follow.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the Library of Congress said the sections were missing “due to a coding error” and expect it to be “resolved soon.” When contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress did not say what caused the coding error, or how it was introduced.
Changing the U.S. Constitution’s text on the website does not change or have any effect on U.S. law, but it nevertheless follows senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller’s threats earlier this year to suspend habeas corpus.
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Russia: Diplomacy of Force
“The image posted by Yermak, a retro-style drawing of Donald Trump grabbing a defeated Vladimir Putin by the feet, about to throw him to the mat WWE-style, reflects the current state of the Western world, as it waits for Donald Trump to destroy Russia. The childishness of the drawing may also be representative of that way of thinking.”
Diplomacy of force (Original: Diplomacia de fuerza)
Read More »How the DOGE-driven reductions at the Social Security Administration are playing out now
Between the largest force reduction in its history and major workforce realignments, the Social Security Agency has been struggling to deliver basic services. New technology is supposed to fill the service gaps, but most of the experts needed to develop and deploy those tools have left the agency. Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security and Disability Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, joined the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton with more details on the impacts of these staffing reductions.
How the DOGE-driven reductions at the Social Security Administration are playing out now
Trump’s Prescription for Poverty: Forced Psychiatry and the Criminalization of Homelessness
Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
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Trump Pushes Policies That ‘Treat Homelessness and Mental Illness as a Crime’
New Research Shows Risks of Coercive Psychiatric Treatment
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is raising difficult but necessary questions about a practice that affects hundreds of thousands of lives each year: involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
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This equates to a 79% increase in risk of being charged with a violent crime, and almost a doubled risk of dying by suicide or overdose, in the three months following evaluation for hospitalization.
The researchers also found hospitalization often caused destabilization. It led to declines in employment and earnings, and increased use of homeless shelters. It did not lead to better outpatient care or more consistent medication use.
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